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what is professionalism? |
quality of performing with skill, knowledge and abilities. |
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what did socratics stand for? |
virtue |
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what did st. thomas aquinas stand for? |
happiness |
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what did kant stand for? |
deontological, duty |
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what did J. S. Mills stand for? |
unity |
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what did john rawls stand for? |
social justice, contractarian |
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What are the 3 models of professionalism? |
commercial model, guild model, interactive model |
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What does the commercial model describe? |
dentistry is simply about selling services. There is no obligation between the patient and dentist. |
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What does the guild model describe? |
The dentist decides what the patient needs and gives the patient no autonomy. |
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What does the interactive model describe? |
Dentist and patient are equals. The patient has informed consent and autonomy. |
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which model of professionalism is best? |
interactive model |
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what is an oath? |
solemn promise to follow guidelines |
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what does self-regulating mean? |
professional codes of ethics are enforced by those within the profession |
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what is duty? |
moral obligation |
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what is peer review? |
self-regulation by judging colleagues
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what is character? |
moral qualities distinctive to someone |
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what is competency? |
essential skills requiring knowledge, skill, and ability |
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what is accreditation? |
assuring the public we are able to practice |
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what are standards? |
expectations |
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what are the standards of care for Dental hygiene practice? |
assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation, documentation |
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what is tolerance?
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caring for all individuals who seek treatments whether or not they are likeable |
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what is licensure? |
enforces practice codes, establishes standard, and sanctions incompetent practitioners to protect the health and safety of the public |
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what are the DH professional traits?
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honesty and integrity caring and compassion reliability and responsibility maturity and self-analysis loyalty interpersonal communication respect for others and self |
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What does the honesty trait entail? |
patient is confident that information given is handled appropriately. |
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What is the integrity trait? |
a commitment to upholding the code of ethics and the standard of care |
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What does the care trait entail? |
demonstrating empathy to comfort and guide the patient |
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What does the compassion trait entail? |
merciful to all patients |
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What do the reliability and responsibility traits entail? |
the dh accepts responsibility for performing services to the best standard of care and meeting obligations of time and duty. They also maintain current knowledge of theory and technique. (CE credits) |
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What does the maturity trait entail? |
working efficiently and effectively toward goals of attaining and maintaining oral health for each patient. |
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What does the self-anaylsis trait entail? |
the dh assesses their skills and is responsible for changing and improving them when necessary |
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What does the loyalty trait entail? |
protecting and promoting the interests of a person, group, or organization. Keeping promises |
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What does the interpersonal communication trait entail? |
communication and ability of the patient to speak and be heard. |
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What does the tolerance for others trait entail? |
treating all patients without discrimination |
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What does the respect for self trait entail? |
maintaining own physical and mental health so the patients needs remain the focus |
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What guides dental hygienists? |
the 6 central values and basic beliefs |
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What are the 6 central values and basic beliefs? |
patients life and general health patients oral health patients autonomy hygienists preferred patterns of practice access to health care for all responsibility lies with us |
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What are the characteristics of a true profession? |
specialized knowledge of value to society
intensive course of study standards of practice recognition by society code of ethics organized association service orientation |
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What do the standards of practice refer to?
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The NAC and NRS |
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What are the chief clients? |
patients |
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What are patient care competencies? |
accreditation standards for dh programs |
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What are the patient care competencies? |
providing dh for all ages and special needs providing the dh process of care providing dh for all types of periodontal disease interacting with all types of population groups Being involved in community programs applying ethical, legal, and regulatory concepts identifying self assessment skills for lifelong learning evaluating current scientific literature applying problem solving strategies for patients |
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What is the standard of care #1? |
assessment (data collection) |
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What is the standard of care #2? |
dh diagnosis (problem identification) |
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What is the standard of care #3? |
planning (selection of interventions) |
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What is the standard of care #4? |
implementation (activating plan) |
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What is the standard of care #5? |
Evaluation (feedback on effectiveness) |
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What is the standard of care #6? |
Documentation |
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What are the legal requirements to practice DH? |
The state dental practice act and Licensure |
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What does the state dental practice act include? |
Nevada Administration Code and Nevada Revised Statutes |
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What is the difference between the Nevada Administration Code and Nevada Revised Statutes? |
The code is the rules, the statutes are the laws |
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Who is Alfred C. Fones? |
The father of dental hygiene
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Who is Irene Newman? |
The first Dental hygienist |
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What was Dr. Fones role in creating DH? |
he trained irene newman to provide prophylactic procedures, and then started a training program for other women to learn |
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What happened in 1914? |
27 women graduated from Dr. Fones' program |
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What happened in 1926? |
The code of ethics was drafted by the ADHA |
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What happened in 1927? |
The code of ethics was initiated |
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What year did the first male DH graduate? |
1965 |
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What did the state of Nevada allow dh to do in 1998? |
practice without a supervising dentist with permission from the board |
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What are the challenges for DH? |
Preceptorship Advanced dental hygienist practitioner dental therapist recruitment and retention |
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What is preceptorship? |
on the job training for DH. Not licensed |
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What does an Advanced Dental Hygiene practitioner (ADDP) do? |
first line of care for people without access |
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What does a dental therapist do? |
All DH things and minor dental work |
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Why is recruitment and retention a challenge? |
Because it is physically demanding and they don't want to pay for ADHA |
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Why ins advancing DH as a profession a challenge? |
only licensed professional that can't dictate how we practice |
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What are the 3 levels of the ADHA? |
National, constituent or state level, local or component level |
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What is the national level? |
ADHA, go to congress for laws |
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What is the constituent or state level? |
NVDHA, monitor legistration and CE credits |
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What is the local or component level? |
SNDHA, implements community service projects, gives ideas to state/national levels |
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What is the other name for local level?
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component |
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What is the other name for state level? |
constituent |
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What ADHA district are we in? |
12 |
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What states are in district 12? |
alaska, hawaii, idaho, nevada, oregon, washington |
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What are the structural components for ADHA? |
house of delegates, board of trustees, officers, committees |
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What is one essential characteristic of a profession? |
Having an oath |
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What does an oath do? |
provides guidelines and standards for professionals to practice or judge by |
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Can an ethical code prevent a professional from acting in an improper manner? |
Yes, because there are guidelines to follow. |
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How does the code of ethics bind members? |
By expressing goals |
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Is the code of ethics a legal mandate? |
No, only aspirational |
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Who developed ethical codes? |
Hippocrates |
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How was the original code constructed? |
into 3 sections, and written in a tone that applied to women |
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How revises the code? |
a committee |
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What are the first 3 sections of the code? |
preamble, purpose of the code, and key concepts |
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What are the second 3 sections of the code? |
Basic Beliefs, fundamental principles, core values |
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what is the last section of the code? |
standards of professional responsibility |
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What does the preamble consist of? |
dh mission statement |
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What does the purpose section say? |
we need to achieve high levels of ethical consciousness |
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specific objectives for the code of ethics? |
increase professional and ethical consciousness recognize and make more informed ethical decision establish a standard for judgement and conduct provides a statement for what the public can expect from us |
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key concepts of the code? |
beliefs principles and values |
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what is the purpose for the basic beliefs? |
guide our practice and provide context for our ethics |
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fundamental principles in the code? |
universality, complementarity, ethics, community, responsibility |
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universality |
all will judge a situation the same way |
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complementarity |
there is an obligation to justice and basic human rights and considered the values of others before making decisions affecting them |
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ethics |
they are general right and wrong that guide behavior and compel us to engage in health promotion/disease prevention activities promotes good, minimizes harm |
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community |
concern for the bond between individuals, community and society in general that leads us to preserve natural resources and show concern for the global environment |
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responsibility |
accept responsibility and consequences for applying and knowing guidelines for making ethical choices |
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core values? |
individual autonomy and respect for human beings confidentiality societal trust nonmaleficence beneficence justice and fairness veracity |
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Fidelity |
Implied but not stated value. Belief that it is right to keep promises and fulfill commitments. Do not abandon patient before treatment is finished |
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autonomy |
people have the with to be treated with respect and informed consent. Present patient with unbiased information and allow them to make decisions. |
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confidentiality |
respect the confidentiality of patients info and value autonomy. Critical aspect of trust |
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When is it okay to break the confidentiality value? |
When someone is suicidal or murderous taking cocaine and getting anesthetic abusive std |
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societal trust |
values client trust and know that publics trust is based on our actions
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nonmaleficence |
Do no harm. Protect in clients and minimize harm to them and other |
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two things that fall under the category of nonmaleficence? |
Knowing when to refer a patient
CE course Protect patients from harm Know own limitations Don't inflict harm, prevent harm, remove harm, promote good. |
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beneficence |
promoting the well being of the public with heal promotion/disease prevention activities |
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justice and fairness |
Providing groups what is owed, due or deserved. Allocation of resources. Who should provide care to poor? and support equal distribution of health care resources |
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veracity |
obligation to tell the truth and be honest and expect others to do the same. Basis of trust relationship. No white lies |
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fidelity |
faithful to promises and commitments |
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Who are the people the standards of responsibility encompasses? |
to ourselves as individuals to ourselves as professionals to family and friends to patients to colleagues to employers and employees to dh profession to community and society to scientific investigation |
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standards of professional responsibility |
we are obliged to practice in a way that supports our purpose, believes, and values. |
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professional responsibility to ourselves as individuals? |
strive for knowledge and grown have a lifestyle for optimal health create a safe work environment seek advice from others have realistic expectations of ourselves |
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professional responsibility to ourselves as professionals? |
continually learn support peer-review systems develop professional relationships and exchange knowledge |
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professional responsibility to family and friends? |
support others efforts of healthy lifestyles and respect their rights |
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professional responsibility to clients? |
have high levels of professional judgment, skill and knowledge when providing care safe environment no discrimination keep relationships confidential communicate with respect be an advocate for clients give enough info for informed decisions refer when needed educate recognize how culture influences decisions |
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professional responsibility to colleagues? |
have professional activities and programs encourage growth and development minimize risk to health and safety manage conflicts constructively support other dh inform hcp about relationship btw mouth and body have relationships that are mutually beneficial |
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professional responsibility to employees and employers? |
have honest relationships manage conflicts constructively support the right for an environment that promotes wellness respect each others rights |
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professional responsibility to the DH profession? |
participate in advancement avoid conflicts of interest increase public awareness bring credit to the profession and respect other professions contribute time, talent and finances be a positive image promote professional education that meets the needs of the public |
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How do we have professional responsibility to community and society? |
uphold laws report inappropriate or illegal activities by a hcp use peer review to identity substandard care complu with statutes develop support systems to provide standard of care promote access for dh services for all be consistent with ethics recognize obligation to provide pro bono service |
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How do we have professional responsibility to scientific investigation? |
conduct research use methods that are acceptable |
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Paternalism |
Physician does what he or she thinks is best for the patient. Limits autonomy |
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Informed consent |
Professional provides patient with all relevant information needed to make a decision.Allows patient to make decision. Also informed refusal |
